Professor Snape

[oh have faith]

No: HPFGUIDX 72199

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jencameby" <Jencameby at a...> 
wrote:
> Will Professor Snape be punished for disobeying Dumbledore's 
orders, 
> allowing his personal feelings for James get in the way of The 
Order? 
> Is there an implecation that he could be?
> 
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> 
> Jencameby at a...

Dumbledore doesn't seem in the least bit angry with Snape -mind you, 
he never does- when he and Harry talk about him in "The Lost 
Prophecy" chapter.  He defends all Snape's actions against Harry and 
takes the blame himself for the failed Occlumency as another "old 
man's mistake."  If Dumbledore knows what a volatile mind Snape has -
which I'm sure he does- he'd understand why Snape freaked out so 
totally over Harry's extremely out-of-order trip down pensieve 
lane.  He may have sighed deeply over the poor timing, but Harry 
hardly helped matters. Okay, so Snape should be the grown-up, but I 
think it's difficult to underestimate the depths of intrusion that 
sticking your nose in someone else's pensieve represents.  

My feeling is that Snape was very reluctant to take on the job and 
DD knew it - Snape says in Sirius's kitchen "I assure you, I did not 
beg for the job,".  I can well imagine, after hours of DD's best 
persuasion about how important it is, and how Snape's the only one 
who can do it etc etc, Snape would just snap; "Oh, okay, I'll damn 
well do it!  But don't blame me when it all goes horribly wrong!" 
And lo!  

Added to which, I don't think DD goes in much for punishment - I 
think he rather hopes people can learn from their mistakes without 
being beaten over the head with them.  The worst I can see him doing 
to Snape is giving him a bit of a talking to.  

Faith's Girl